noun
an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle (Freq. 2)
• Syn: ↑axe
• Hypernyms: ↑edge tool
• Hyponyms:
↑broadax, ↑broadaxe, ↑common ax, ↑common axe, ↑Dayton ax, ↑Dayton axe, ↑double-bitted ax, ↑double-bitted axe, ↑Western ax, ↑Western axe, ↑fireman's ax, ↑fireman's axe, ↑hatchet, ↑ice ax, ↑ice axe, ↑piolet, ↑poleax, ↑poleaxe
• Part Meronyms:
verb
1. chop or split with an ax
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axe wood
• Syn: ↑axe
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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They ax the trees
2. terminate
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The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it
• Syn: ↑axe
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
Useful english dictionary. 2012.